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Re: Drawing greek letters
It’s worth comparing the commercial designs at Parachute, a Greek foundry, with the academic orthodoxy that is generally followed by non-native designers of Greek types. Not quite as loggerheads as V…2 -
Punctuation education
I can thoroughly recommend this brilliant book, which I recently came across, as having some relevance to type designers—especially in showing instances of how punctuation marks appear in grammatical…4 -
Re: Drawing greek letters
Don’t just look at the alphabet, try it in Greek text. (I give the same advice for all language scripts.)4 -
Re: Should I include small caps etc. in an authentic italic font revival?
Εἰκὼν Βασιλική, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty in His Solitudes and Sufferings, 1658. A work of royalist propaganda published shortly after the King’s execution by the republican government …1 -
Re: Should I include small caps etc. in an authentic italic font revival?
No John, there is no bold, that came two hundred years after my source! (Despite being such a purist, I am retconning, if that is the correct term, a few characters, such as capital Eszett, which I c…1
